Eat Like a Pilates Guru

Pilates guru Brooke Siler, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Pilates, has helped tone and transform the bodies of her devotees for more than 20 years, including celebrities such as Madonna, Zooey Deschanel, Liv Tyler and Kirsten Dunst. Siler is one of the few Pilates instructors to have trained under the tutelage of…

Are You in Sleep Debt? Here’s How to Balance Your Bedtime Budget

How Pilates Improves Sleep

Joseph Pilates, the founder of our favorite exercise program, believed that exercise could relieve any feelings of nervousness throughout the body. Doctors consistently point out that exercising regularly will help you sleep better, as your body will be more fatigued from the workout. To alleviate this, we suggest trying the Joseph Pilates-advised spine-specific exercises that…

How to do Pilates 100

The Pilates 100 is an exercise that uses the method of Pilates to strengthen the abdominal muscles while teaching your body stability and strengthening your lower back. Pilates is a method of exercise designed to strengthen the core by using gentle, but powerful but controlled movements. In the early 1900’s, Joseph Pilates began to design…

Get a six pack with Pilates

We know that the mention of a Pilates workout would make many men recoil in horror. After all, it’s for lightweight lady celebs and men who babble on about their ‘aura’, isn’t it? That may be the stereotype, but adding some Pilates-style training to your workouts could see you getting fewer injuries and lifting more…

Can you do Pilates with an injury?

Whether you’ve had a chronic injury for years or have a twinge from your last workout, injuries are painful, frustrating and often restrict your participation in the things you love doing. Pilates was originally developed by Joseph Pilates during WWI to rehabilitate injured soldiers, so you’ve definitely chosen wisely as Pilates can be adapted to…